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		<title>Teaching the Skill of Listening in Law Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful research by Marj Shultz and Shelton Zedeck tells is that listening is one of the fundamental lawyering skills that all lawyers, especially recent graduates, need to have in their toolkit upon graduation.  So for the last few years, I have been trying to find ways to incorporate lessons on the skill of listening [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3161&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Law School Clinics and American Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maaronbates</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boyer v. Louisiana]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[McBurney v. Young]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is fantastic to see clinical work-product being used in court cases; to have clinical briefs being referenced in front of the Supreme Court of the United States shows the impact that effective experiential study can have and the effects that clinic experience can have on the future practices of these students. &#8220;The April 30, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3154&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the &#8220;Smartphone Generation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Giancristofaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post comes to us from a very special blogger, Shailini Jandial George, who is a Professor at Suffolk University Law School. You have experienced a scenario like this: your students come to class with laptops, I pads and phones. They text and email during class. They giggle at something on their screens while [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3143&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commencing, Saying Goodbye, And &#8220;Ditching&#8221; C Grades?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/18/commencing-saying-goodbye-and-ditching-c-grades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday,  I sat on the stage of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and for the 24th time fondly watched law students traverse the stage, receive their juris doctoris diploma, and begin their post-law school lives.  I listened to my 24th Commencement Speaker,  National Public Radio&#8217;s Nina Totenberg.  She urged law graduates to look to courageous and humble role [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3088&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Law School Ranking:  Calculator of Law School Employment Stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;transparency&#8221; of law school employment statistics has been widely criticized and robustly discussed over the past few years,  resulting in changes to ABA accreditation rules and to law schools&#8217; documentation and reporting of their graduates employment status.  Just last week, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) http://iaals.du.edu/,  announced a new employment calculator intended to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3045&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TED Talks Education on PBS &#8211; May 7th</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/03/ted-talks-education-on-pbs-may-7th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got this email from Chris Anderson, TED Curator. Should be worthwhile for anyone interested in how to improve teaching and learning. Dear TED community, I am proud to announce that TED Talks Education, our first original televised event, premieres this Tuesday, May 7, on PBS stations across the US. It will be available globally [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3036&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democratization of higher education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/03/democratization-of-higher-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[access to legal information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2012 I delivered a talk at TEDxVillanovaU about The Future of Higher Education, in which I spoke about how online learning can bring about a democratization of higher education.  Renee Knake of Michigan State has taken the idea further and applies it to legal education in her forthcoming article, Democratizing Legal Education.  Elizabeth [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3026&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>want some time saving tips &#8212; watch this video</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/04/27/want-some-time-saving-tips-watch-this-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 6 minute TED Talk by David Pogue about 10 time-saving tech tips will save you more than 6 minutes over the course of the next few months (and it is funny too!). Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: technology, TED<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3021&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA Task Force on the Future of Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/04/26/aba-task-force-on-the-future-of-legal-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Task Force on the Future of Legal Education held a mini-conference on Wednesday.  Karen Sloan wrote an overview of the conference, ABA Struggles for Answers on Law School Reform.  An overview of the Task Force&#8217;s discussion items (from its Dec meeting) is available here.  That document focuses a lot on innovation.  Here is an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3003&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flipped Learning for Legal Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone! Mary just invited me to join this blogging community. Glad to be here. For my first post, I&#8217;d like to think about how flipped or blended learning could be used in legal education. Flipped learning blends online and in-class instruction and has been used of late in lots of educational settings, including K-12 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=2996&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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